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| U.K. Authorities Get Tough on RoHS |
7/10/2006 |
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RoHS enforcer National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML) has been directed to take a tough stance over the new hazardous materials rules from day one as it starts to police the European directive which came into law on July 1.
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| AMD slashes 2Q sales outlook |
7/7/2006 |
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Advanced Micro Devices , lowered its sales target for the second quarter, saying it now expects second quarter sales to be approximately $1.215 billion, down roughly 9 percent from first quarter sales of $1.332 billion
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| ProMOS announces new plant |
7/6/2006 |
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ProMOS Technologies said it would spend US$2.5 billion in building a new advanced plant to meet future demand for bigger memory storage.
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| Samsung ships GDDR4 memory chips |
7/6/2006 |
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Samsung has begun mass producing the world's fastest graphics memory chips, dubbed GDDR4, based on 80-nm process technology.
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| Qimonda samples DDR3 SODIMM memory |
7/5/2006 |
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Qimonda AG, the world’s second largest DRAM supplier, today announced that it has supplied the industry’s first DDR3 SO-DIMM samples
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| Chipset suppliers see revenues drop in June |
7/5/2006 |
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VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated System (SiS) saw revenues decline in June sequentially as the impact of the low season continued to be felt and their shares in the chipset market dropped.
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| HP launches AMD Turion 64 X2-based laptops |
7/5/2006 |
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HP on July 4 launched in the Taiwan market two laptops powered by AMD's 64-bit Turion 64 X2 mobile CPUs, with the company expected to introduce more AMD-based notebooks for the business sector in the second half of this year, according to company sources.
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| Intel postpones launch of new desktop CPUs to July 27 |
7/3/2006 |
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The launch of the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800, Core 2 Duo E6300, E6400, E6600 and E6700 processors, which were originally expected to arrive on July 23, will be postponed to July 27,
according to a recent review of Intel's product roadmap by sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.
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| SiS tweaks chipset roadmap, AMD platform gets priority |
7/3/2006 |
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Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) recently made a few changes in its chipset roadmap, adjusting its business plans to market realities, the company said. According to SiS, the company has separated the SiS671 and SiS771 northbridges, which respectively target the Intel and AMD desktop platforms, from each other by timeframes.
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| Xilinx issued recalls for its FPGA |
6/29/2006 |
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Xilinx Inc. has issued a recall of Spartan-3, Spartan-3E and Spartan-3L FPGAs made between early September 2005 and late April of this year.
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| Microsoft executive to join Google |
6/29/2006 |
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Vic Gundotra, a general manager for platform evangelism at Microsoft and a 15-year employee, has agreed to join Google after first spending a year working on charitable endeavors, source familiar with the company said.
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| New iPod could be delayed |
6/29/2006 |
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The next generation of iPods, which investors are eagerly awaiting to boost Apple's sales, could face major delays, according to an analyst who follows the company.
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| Rambus to restate earnings |
6/28/2006 |
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Rambus¡¦s internal investigation into its options granting practices has revealed some errors in options dating that may result in restatements of the company¡¦s financials for previous years.
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| Intel to ship Montecito to key customers |
6/28/2006 |
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Intel has begun shipping Montecito, the first dual-core implementation of its high-end Itanium 2 processor, to key customers, sources at the company confirmed.
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